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very many feet below the surface, but below blue and 

 yellow clay. And at Lake Timboon the bones of 

 the wild dog were found with those of the Tasmanian 

 devil (sarcophilus ursinus), now extinct on the main 

 land, and only found living in Tasmania. 



It is now beyond doubt that the dingo was once co- 

 temporaneous with the now extinct marsupial lion, 

 which in former ages roamed through the forests of 

 Australia. 



I was told an amusing story in which a dingo 

 figured, and I give it to my reader that he may also 

 have the benefit of it. 



There was an enthusiastic reader of the Bible living 

 in one of the towns of New South Wales, who main- 

 tained that nothing ever occurred to us in our daily 

 experience which could not be represented or illus- 

 trated by some passage in the Bible. His friends used 

 to chaff him on it, but he could not be shaken. 



One day he came some little distance for the 

 purpose of bathing in the sea, and he brought with 

 him a luncheon of sandwich, which he wrapped (to 

 prevent its drying with the hot sun) inside his coat 

 and shirt, laying the parcel down upon the beach, and 

 then went a few rods further down, and removing his 

 pantaloons, went in. While he was swimming about 

 a dingo came down from the scrub on the hill, 



